New books in review

JOHN C. CALHOUN, NULLIFIER, 1829–39. By Charles M. Wiltse. Indianapolis: The Bobbs‐Merrill Company, 1949; pp. 511. $6.00.

F. D. R. MY BOSS. By Grace Tully. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949; pp. xiii+372. $3.50.

THE PEOPLE SHALL JUDGE. Readings in the Formation of American Policy. Selected and edited by The Staff, Social Sciences 1, The College of the University of Chicago. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1949. 2 volumes; pp. xvi+797; xiv+931; $4.50 each volume.

THE HARVARD READING LIST IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Edited by Kenneth B. Murdock, Chairman, John M. Gaus, Howard M. Jones, Frederick Merk, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949; pp., 22. 50c.

THE ART OF READABLE WRITING. By Rudolf Flesch. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xiv+237. $3.00.

LANGUAGE . . . MAN . . . SOCIETY. Readings in Communication. Edited by Harold E. Briggs. New York: Rinehart and Company, 1949; pp. xv+707. $3.50.

MASS COMMUNICATIONS. A Book of Readings Selected and Edited for the Institute of Communications Research in the University of Illinois by the Director of the Institute, Wilbur Schramm. Urbana: The University of Illinois Press, 1949; pp. xi+552. $4.50.

THE POLLS AND PUBLIC OPINION. The Iowa Conference on Attitude and Opinion Research Sponsored by the State University of Iowa. Edited by Norman C. Meier and Harold W. Saunders. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1949; pp. x+355. $2.50.

DEMOCRACY THROUGH DISCUSSION. By Bruno Lasker. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1949; pp. xvii+376. $3.50.

CONFERENCE METHODS IN INDUSTRY. By Henry M. Busch. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xii+104. $1.50.

INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONAL SEMANTICS. By Joseph G. Brin. With a Foreword by Maxwell H. Goldberg. Assisted by Lloyd S. FitzPatrick. Boston: The National Press Corporation. Tudor Book Division, 1949; pp. 201. $3.00.

INSTRUCTOR TRAINING MANUAL, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Command and General Staff College, 1949; pp. vi+150. $1.75.

REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN SPEECHES: 1948–49. Edited by A. Craig Baird. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1949; pp. 252. $1.50.

BASIC TRAINING IN SPEECH. Brief Edition. By Lester Thonssen and Howard Gilkinson. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1949; pp. 256. $2.25.

PUBLIC SPEAKING WITHOUT FEAR AND TREMBLING. By Mark Hanna. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1949; pp. 166. $2.75.

THE HUMAN NATURE OF PLAYWRITING. By Samson Raphaelson. New York: The Mac‐millan Company, 1949; pp. 267. $4.00.

ONE HUNDRED PLAYS FOR CHILDREN. Edited by A. S. Burack. Boston: Plays, Inc., 1949; pp. ix+886. $4.75.

THE THEATRE ANNUAL. No. 7. Edited by William Van Lennep. New York: The Theatre Library Association, 1949; pp. 103. $1.50.

THE PLAY'S THE THING. By Joseph Mersand. New York: The Modern Chapbooks, 1948; pp. 101. $2.50.

THE AMERICAN DRAMA SINCE 1930. By Joseph Mersand. New York: The Modern Chapbooks, 1949; pp. 188. $2.00.

THE RADIO PLAY. By Martin Maloney. Evanston, Illinois: Student Book Exchange, 1949; pp. iii+241. $2.90.

HEARING IS BELIEVING. By Mary Hays Heiner. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, 1949; pp. 126. $2.00.

BASIC COMPOSITION. Book One. By Philip Burnham. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1949; pp. xiii+450. $2.20.

PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE. By Julian C. Ross. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1949; pp. xi+286. $3.00.

THE TOASTMASTER'S HANDBOOK. By Herbert V. Prochnow. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1949; pp. vi+374. $3.95.